Practical ways of showing empathy

Ideas for what to say or do to show you care and want to understand

The compounding interest of small acts

Whether empathy or indifference, small words and actions matter.

Big gestures of love or empathy are amazing and inspiring. But often it’s small acts of kindness over a long period of time that…

How empathy is helping change a whole community

A remarkable story of a barber and a cop bridging racial divides with empathy

A friend recently shared with me the Cops and Barbers episode of Crossing the Divide from…

Seeking clarity vs making assumptions

Sometimes showing empathy is a matter of getting clarity.

Embracing all the feels

How emotions are the cry of our soul

Someone recently told me how they were making lots of ‘happy’ plans to stay busy and avoid grieving. 

Undeserved, unnatural, and freely given

The remarkable nature of empathy

Undeserved, unnatural, and freely given — that’s the remarkable nature of empathy.

Stupid, painful emotions — when it hurts to feel

Learning how to own our emotions when we’d rather not

Our natural instinct is to obscure painful feelings. We often mask one emotion with another depending on our personality. Some may…

Afraid of the dark

Are we willing to face the grownup version of being afraid of the dark?

I was the kid who was always afraid of the dark. Closet doors had to be shut and the nightlight on before I could peacefully curl up and sleep at…

Political correctness and responding to the London Bridge attack

Will we let fear and hate win?

The terrorist attack on the London Bridge this past weekend has generated a range of reactions — sadness, anger, frustration, hopelessness…

Letting our feelings show

Healthy ways to release our emotions so we can process them

I’ve written a couple times about feeling our feelings and embracing difficult emotions. But sometimes that’s really hard to do, despite knowing we should.